First migrants and recent immigrants were rounded up from Greece's streets and forced into internment camps.Then they threw the drug users in. Next came the sex workers, forcibly HIV tested, publicly humiliated, and imprisoned.

There are now at least 5,000 people languishing in these hellholes simply for existing -- and this month, while warning trans* men and women to "return to normal" or else, the Greek government announced that camp capacity is about to double.

The fund claimed that Argentina owed it $350 million, and offered to let the ship leave if Argentina's government put up a $20 million bond to be forfeited. EM´s CEO is Paul Elliot Singer, who specializes in piling up insolvent country debt.

Who will benefit from the new set of Greek austerity measures, which got a violent response from the crowd on Sunday? Adrian Salbuchi, author and consultant, suggests it's the bankers, who are responsible for the economic downturn in the first place.

By Chloe Hadjimatheou BBC World Service, Athens Greece's financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all - their children. Posted by Parsifal Rain Satori on February 11, 2012

Harsh austerity measures and a struggling economy have given birth to the 'new poor' in Athens, a term used to describe those suffering the impacts of social exclusion and rapidly shrinking civic welfare institutions.

(CNN) -- Days after blocking a Gaza-bound flotilla, Greece's government offered Sunday to ship aid to the Palestinian territory -- a move applauded by the U.N. chief but derided as insufficient by protest organizers and Palestinian authorities.
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